Yay for intelligent phone spammers

[cjwatson]

Phone: [ring]
Col: [pick up] Hello? [no sound] Hello? [pause, buzzing]
Phone spammer: Hello, am I speaking to Mr. Kelly?
C: No, you aren't.
PS: He is unavailable?
C: He does not live here any more.
PS: OK, then I will call back.
C: You don't need to call back; please do not call me again. [PS hangs up somewhere in the middle of this]

Am I speaking in Korean without noticing, or something? I realise I'm probably sounding like a broken record on this to ghoti at least, but I'm really looking forward to my TPS registration becoming active.

Comments

Doesn't really hold

[(Anonymous)]

There is an operating call centre just three rows of cubicles away, and I can say with a fair degree of certainty that hostile customers are just one part of what makes call centre work hellish. And yet, there is always new grist for the mill.

Anyway, when they said they will call back later, what they really meant to say was "I'll be back for *you* later." It helps if you imagine a similar scenario to Death telling the Merchant he'll be back for him later.

g.